NIXON, Richard Milhous, a Representative and a Senator from California and a Vice President
and 37th President of the United States; born in Yorba Linda, Orange County,
Calif., January 9, 1913; attended the public schools; graduated from Whittier
(Calif.) College in 1934 and Duke University Law School, Durham, N.C., in 1937;
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Whittier, Calif.;
attorney in Office of Emergency Management, Washington, D.C., January 1942 to
August 1942; during the Second World War served in the United States Navy from
August 1942 to January 1946 and was discharged as a lieutenant commander;
elected as a Republican to the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congresses and served
from January 3, 1947, until his resignation November 30, 1950; elected to the
Senate for the term commencing January 3, 1951; subsequently appointed to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Sheridan Downey and served from
December 1, 1950, until his resignation January 1, 1953, to become Vice
President; elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket
with Dwight Eisenhower on November 4, 1952, for the term beginning January 20,
1953; reelected Vice President of the United States in 1956, and served from
January 20, 1953, until January 20, 1961; unsuccessful Republican nominee for
President of the United States in 1960; resumed the practice of law in Los
Angeles and New York; unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of
California in 1962; elected President of the United States in 1968 and
inaugurated January 20, 1969; reelected in 1972, and inaugurated January 20,
1973; resigned August 9, 1974, during impeachment proceedings against him in
the House Judiciary Committee arising from matters surrounding the Watergate
affair; accepted pardon from President Gerald R. Ford, September 8, 1974; was a
resident of New York City, and later Park Ridge, N.J., until his death in New
York City, April 22, 1994; interment on the grounds of the Richard Nixon
Library, Yorba Linda, Calif.

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